Meet the Actors
Martin Monahan
Lloyd Gills
Martin Monahan has a bachelor’s degree in Theatre from Ball State University where he trained in Acting, Shakespeare, and Improv. Currently, Martin is in advanced Improv Comedy training at Chicago’s famous I.O Theatre. Monahan co-founded Strangeloop Theatre Company in Chicago where serves as an Artistic Associate and has acted in numerous Strangeloop Theater productions. He has acted in short films such as Knock Knock, Dumgrot, Robot Roomate, Mosul Illinois, and Endure. Pervertigo will be Monahan’s feature film debut.
Mark Zeisler
Redmond Nash
Mark Zeisler’s film credits include Random Hearts, Two Week Notice, Shaft, Revolution #9 and After School, which was a 2008 entry at both the Cannes and New York Film Festivals. In television, Mark has been seen on all three incarnations of Law and Order, The Good Wife, Rescue Me, Blue Bloods and Third Watch. Broadway credits include A View from the Bridge and Brooklyn Boy and Off Broadway in Eurydice at Second Stage, The Accomplices at The New Group, and Modotti at The Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row. In regional theatre, Mark has performed around the US at such theatres as American Reportory Theatre, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Merrimack Rep, The Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep, City Theatre, Alabama Shakepeare, The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, The McCarter, Baltimore Center Stage and the 2001 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mark is a native of New York City and a graduate of the acting program at SUNY Purchase.
Jodi Stevens
Oksana Nash
Ms. Stevens most recently earned rave reviews as Hollywood film icon, Marlene Dietrich, in the Off Broadway production of Dietrich and Chevalier. Other films include The Funeral and The Narrow Gate. On Broadway she starred in the original companies of Urban Cowboy and Jekyll & Hyde. Off Broadway favorites include, Claire Strider in Under Fire: The Musical, I Can Get it for You Wholesale, Eliot Ness in Cleveland, Body Shop, Antigone: The Musical and 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Around the country Ms. Stevens has also starred in many regional productions, such as Heaven Help Us: A New Rat Pack Musical, Harmony: The Musical, by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman , Dracula: The Musical by Frank Wildhorn and Christopher Hampton. On television she has quest starred in Conviction, Sex and the City, Central Park West, Guiding Light, All My Children and As The World Turns. Vocal Recordings include: her solo album Girl Talk, The Kurt Weill: Centennial, Johnny Mercer's: Dream (both for The Actor’s Fund), Rodgers and Leonhart (featured guest artist). Jekyll & Hyde (Broadway Cast Album) Her one-woman show, A Broad's Way, is now booked at various locations thru 2011. Currently, Jodi is starring opposite her husband, Scott Bryce, in Love Letter’s at Music Theatre of Connecticut, located in Westport, where she is a proud member of the Theatre Artists Workshop.
Teddy Cañez
The Gardener
Teddy Cañez was raised in Tucson, Arizona and received his BFA from the University of Arizona. Mr. Cañez has performed at prestigious theatres across the country, including the Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Hartford Stage Company and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Mr. Cañez’s film and television credits include: HBO’s The Wire and How to Make it in America, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: C.I., Last Night at Angelo’s and Independence. Mr. Cañez is scheduled to begin filming his next project this spring, a science fiction feature called The Feed, written and directed by Will Stewart. Mr. Cañez lives with his wife and cat in New York City.
Aaron Glaser
Phil
Aaron Glaser is an actor, writer, comedian, and maker of short films. He has been writing and performing comedy in New York since 2006. He has taken part in over 70 original stage shows at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. As a stand-up he has performed all over New York and Los Angeles. Aaron’s video shorts have been profiled by New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal ,The Huffington Post, Comedy Central Insider, Splitsider, and the Comic’s Comic to name a few. He has appeared in handful of commercials, a few films, and on several episodes of “Late night with Jimmy Fallon.” He enjoys all sorts of fish.
Mason Pettit
Leon
Mason Pettit adapted, produced and performed in twelve critically-acclaimed modern adaptations of Shakespeare Off Broadway as a founding member of the Moonwork Theater Company in New York. Recently, he appeared alongside Al Pacino in HBO's You Don't Know Jack and in Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut "Jack Goes Boating." Mason had a recurring role on the NBC drama Conviction, and has been all manner of cops, construction workers and detectives on Law and Order. He was one half of the long running AT&T "buddies" campaign, and is currently the commercial voice of HBO, GM, USA Network, G4 and ABC NEWS. He's thrilled to be a part of team Pervertigo.
